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BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA9) -- Metro riders who use the Bethesda station should have an easier ride to the rail platform Monday.

The first of three new entrance escalators is now open. The new escalator has a rise of 106 feet, making it the second longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere. The escalator behind the Wheaton station is the longest.

It took crews took nine months to tear out the old escalator and replace it with the new one.

BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA9) -- A member of the Maryland House of delegates who represents part of Montgomery County was arrested last month and charged with indecent exposure and trespassing, according to court documents.

Delegate Ariana Kelly (D-16) allegedly flashed her breasts at her ex-husband after she saw his fiance inside his home. The incident happened while Kelly was dropping her children off to her ex-husband, the records say.

Kelly, 39, faces trial next month. She represents the 16th district, which includes Potomac and parts of Bethesda.

BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA9) -- A Bethesda woman is among the more than 600 children rescued during WWII by Nicholas Winton, who is best known as the "British Schindler".

In 1939, Alice Masters was a teenager living in a small then-Czechoslovakian town with her parents and two sisters.

"In the winter we skated and skied. We had a wonderful childhood. It was a village life, and I loved everything about it," Masters said.

But Hitler's army was steadily making its way into Europe. In Germany, his men had already carried out deadly attacks on Jewish homes and businesses –Masters' family was Jewish. Her parents were worried, but one of Masters' uncles, who was living in London, told them about a man named Nicholas Winton, who had something to do with getting children from Prague to London.

BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA9) -- A Montgomery County man has been arrested for using a selfie stick to take unauthorized recordings of a neighbor, police announced Thursday.

Sixty-year-old Donald Frazier Beard, of the 10600 block of Montrose Avenue in Bethesda, is charged with one count of placing a camera in a private residence, one count of visual surveillance in a private residence, and two counts of interception of communications, according to police.

Officers were originally called to Frazier's street on Oct. 27, 2014, when a female resident reported seeing a camera attached to a metal pole in front of her sliding glass door, according to police. After Beard was identified as a suspect, police executed a search warrant that led to the seizure of several electronic devices belonging to him.